beta

Version 4.6.0 [v4-stable] (rgerhards), 2010-02-24

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This is a new stable v4 version. It contains all fixes and enhancements
made during the 4.5.x phase as well as those listed below.

Note: this version is scheduled to conclude the v4 development process.
Do not expect any more new developments in v4. The focus is now
on v5 (what also means we have a single devel branch again).
(“development” means new feature development, bug fixes are of
course provided for v4-stable)
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• improved testbench to contain samples for totally malformed messages which miss parts of the message content
• bugfix: some malformed messages could lead to a missing LF inside files or some other missing parts of the template content.
• bugfix: if a message ended immediately with a hostname, the hostname was mistakenly interpreted as TAG, and localhost be used as hostname
• bugfix: message without MSG part could case a segfault [backported from v5 commit 98d1ed504ec001728955a5bcd7916f64cd85f39f]. This actually was a “recent” regression, but I did not realize that it was introduced by the performance optimization in v4-devel. Shame on me for having two devel versions at the same time…

Version 4.5.8 [v4-beta] (rgerhards), 2010-02-10

• enhanced doc for using PostgreSQL
  Thanks to Marc Schiffbauer for the new/updated doc

• bugfix: property replacer returned invalid parameters under some (unusual) conditions. In extreme cases, this could lead to garbled logs and/or a system failure.
• bugfix: invalid length returned (often) when using regular expressions inside the property replacer
• bugfix: submatch regex in property replacer did not honor “return 0 on no match” config case
• bugfix: imuxsock incorrectly stated inputname “imudp”
  Thanks to Ryan Lynch for reporting this.

• (slightly) enhanced support for FreeBSD by setting _PATH_MODDIR to the correct value on FreeBSD.
  Thanks to Cristiano for the patch.

• bugfix: -d did not enable display of debug messages regression from introduction of “debug on demand” mode
  Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting this bug

• bugfix: blanks inside file names did not terminate file name parsing.
  This could reslult in the whole rest of a line (including comments) to be treated as file name in “write to file” actions.
  Thanks to Jack for reporting this issue.

• bugfix: rsyslog hang when writing to a named pipe which nobody was reading. Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting this bug.
• bugfix: memory leak when sending messages in zip-compressed format
  Thanks to Naoya Nakazawa for analyzing this issue and providing a patch.

• bugfix: potential segfaults during queue shutdown (bugs require certain non-standard settings to appear)
  Thanks to varmojfekoj for the patch

Version 5.3.7 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2010-01-27

• bugfix: queues in direct mode could case a segfault, especially if an action failed for action queues. The issue was an invalid increment of a stack-based pointer which lead to destruction of the stack frame and thus a segfault on function return.
  Thanks to Michael Biebl for alerting us on this problem. [backport from 5.5.2]

• bugfix: wrong memory assignment for a config variable (probably without causing any harm) [backport from 5.2.2]
• bugfix: rsyslog hangs when writing to a named pipe which nobody was reading. Thanks to Michael Biebl for reporting this bug.
  Bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169 [imported from 4.5.8]

Version 5.3.6 [BETA] (rgerhards), 2010-01-13

• bugfix: ompgsql did not properly check the server connection in
  tryResume(), which could lead to rsyslog running in a thight loop

• bugfix: suspension during beginTransaction() was not properly handled
  by rsyslog core

• bugfix: omfile output was only written when buffer was full, not at
  end of transaction

• bugfix: commit transaction was not properly conveyed to message layer,
  potentially resulting in non-message destruction and thus hangs

• bugfix: enabling GSSServer crashes rsyslog startup
  Thanks to Tomas Kubina for the patch [imgssapi]

• bugfix (kind of): check if TCP connection is still alive if using TLS
  Thanks to Jonathan Bond-Caron for the patch.

• bugfix: $CreateDirs variable not properly initialized, default thus
  was random (but most often “on”) [imported from v3]

• bugfix: ompgsql had problems with transaction support, what actually
  rendered it unsuable. Thanks to forum user “horhe” for alerting me
  on this bug and helping to debug/fix it!

• bugfix: memory leak when sending messages in zip-compressed format
  Thanks to Naoya Nakazawa for analyzing this issue and providing a patch.

• worked around an issue where omfile failed to compile on 32 bit platforms
  under some circumstances (this smells like a gcc problem, but a simple
  solution was available). Thanks to Kenneth Marshall for some advice.
  [backported from 5.5.x branch]

Version 4.5.7 [v4-beta] (rgerhards), 2009-11-18

• added a so-called “On Demand Debug” mode, in which debug output can be generated only after the process has started, but not right from the beginning. This is assumed to be useful for hard-to-find bugs. Also improved the doc on the debug system.
• bugfix [imported from 4.4.3]: $ActionExecOnlyOnceEveryInterval did not work.